Eotyrannus

It turns out that the 2001 characterisation of Eotyrannus is horrendously wrong, as a new rigorous skeletal reconstruction (to be published soon) shows.

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So Eotyrannus was in the newspapers as a new dinosaur discovery in 1998, and then again in 2001 when it was formally named and described (Hutt et al. 2001).

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Oh yeah, I suppose I'd better post about Eotyrannus at some stage.

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So is it time to produce the definitive blog post on Eotyrannus lengi, the dinosaur I did my phd on?

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Basing my conclusions on what happened with Eotyrannus, this is almost certainly correct.

‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part IV Darren Naish 2006

Basing my conclusions on what happened with Eotyrannus, this is almost certainly correct.

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Eotyrannus seems to have been a mid-sized theropod.

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Eotyrannus lengi, a new coelurosaur from the Isle of Wight.

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In between other projects (including papers on Eotyrannus, Aristosuchus and Thecocoelurus), I really got to work on the MIWG. 7306 paper during 2001, and visited the specimen several more times.

‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part I Darren Naish 2006

The osteology and affinities of Eotyrannus lengi and other Lower Cretaceous theropod dinosaurs from England.

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